This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Batchelor.

It is 1888 in Keefe.

A new statue is raised.

The statue is to a man named Kerminski, a hero, to the Ukrainians, to the Crimean Cossacks, to the Russians, even to the Soviets in the future.

Who is he? 17th century man and on the statues, Plinth, and originally, because it was a

product of Russian nationalist, activist nationalists in Kiev. They wanted to write,

oh, it will be better. Oh, it will be more beautiful. When in our Ukraine, there are no Jews, no Poles, no Christians

from the West, Uniate Church. It goes on to say, a united, indivisible Russia to

Hetman Bodan Kaminsky. Professor Eugene Finkel is here.

His new book is Intent to Destroy, Russia's 200-year quest to dominate Ukraine.

That statue is a big clue as to what was happening in the 17th century, what is happening

in the 21st century.

Eugene Finkel is the Kenneth Keller Professor of International Affairs,

Johns Hopkins University of Advanced International Studies.

He joins us from Europe to comment on Kaminsky's statue.

Professor, the phrase is that they did not write, although they were approved by the

Tsar, I believe. They tell a story of woe. Who was he? Why was he important to everyone that they

raised a statue to him? Good evening to you. Good evening. Thanks for having me, John. So,

who Bogdan Hamilitsky is? Essentially, his story begins in early 17th century when the area that we now know as Ukraine is a part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He is a local nobleman, an Orthodox Christian, which makes him very different from the

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